Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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But something’s missing.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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